Example sentences of "they [am/are] working [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children 's motivation can be maintained during a project if they are working towards some culmination of the activity . |
| 2 | I gather they are working on vulgar fractions . |
| 3 | When worn battened down without a hat , the hood really needs some sort of volume adjuster at the back , or else the soft peak reduced visibility dramatically ( Lowe say they are working on this ) . |
| 4 | If real wages are lower , then in the short run employment will rise to and output to i.e. output rises above its equilibrium level because people are ‘ fooled ’ into thinking they are working for real wage when they are actually working for real wage . |
| 5 | On the other hand , they are working among disease-bearing ticks , chiggers , botflies , sandflies , hookworms , leeches and , by no means last or least , the dreaded candiru . |
| 6 | A band does n't have to concern itself with filling in PRS forms at their gigs until they are working in these larger venues . |
| 7 | Well you know where they 're working outside all time ? |
| 8 | So they 're working to different standards than that the water industry . |
| 9 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 10 | he added , ‘ they 're working on that . ’ |
| 11 | I B M , U K , which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year , has some sixteen thousand employees based in some fifty two locations throughout the United Kingdom , and they 're working on all aspects of information technology , er , from software to silicon , from telecommunications to personal systems , and of course we form part of a very large company , I B M Corporation , which employs around three hundred and seventy thousand people across the world . |
| 12 | We have a large coalfired power station near where I live er in Oxfordshire er at a place called Didcot , which is also a railway er junction erm roughly halfway between Harwell where we , we invented er nuclear power and , and Culham where they 're working on nuclear fusion which is a different kind of nuclear power , roughly halfway between the government decides to build the largest coalfired power station in the country . |